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Yeah, i ended up pressing "render as BMP sequence" instead of JPG sequence the first time, caught myself and reposted the JPG one. I found out last time that bmps are too big. Thanks though

Master Chief, in all his glory. Yeah, the decals are terrible, but im planning on making a movie, not a still. Here's what i have so far! Masterchief_Final_Rendering0.bmp

Yeah, definately. I have it scaled to the actual body with the textures! I'm really looking forward to getting this guy all cleaned up and ready for display. I have the entire body done, but there are a lot of parts i need to re-trace and smooth out. I'd show you what i have so far, but i didn't get a chance to post it yesterday.

Wow... I just found quite possibly the most useful decal page for him...

Yeah, a lot of the reason that he doesnt seem to have any mass is that i haven't done any of the neck plating and padding yet. When that's in place it will look a lot more like the good ol' chief.

I got a 3DS File that I'm tinkering with now, so I'm going to clean it up, and COMPLETELY Deck it out, because right now, the modeling looks like a wadded up paper render of him XD

Yeah, I was looking at the Halo3 images and he DOES have pipes for oxygen, but they are under metal plating, so i'm still going to have to make the plating for it some time, but i'm glad you noticed.

Hahah... Thanks! So then i expect you to catch my flaws for me

Still...Obviously a LOT more work to be done XD

No problem! Well, what he means by this, is if you use the BONE MODE, (F6) you can use the Add tool to create bones which can have chosen controlpoints assigned to them, in a case where you can make a NEW ACTION and have the letters "snake" around the hunny jar. In your case, make five bones, all attatched, one per letter.

Under the "Project workspace" (Alt+3) You'll find an "images" folder. If you double click on that, it should let you upload an image. As for where to put the file, make sure it's in the same folder as your project... sometimes projects can do messed up stuff when you dont have the picture and the project together...makes total sense XD

...Woulda never thought of that... Thtats a really good idea...

Probably the most irritating way to do this, would be to curve and fit the CP's of the 3-D text. The most simple way to do this would to not use A:M text, but instead to use a program such as photoshop or paint to make DARK GREY lettering "Hunny" Then to copy that text, and Paste it as BLACK LETTERING and have it over it, so it gives it a 3-D shadowing effect, Then you can Apply that image as a decal. This is probably the method i'd use... but im lazy

I'm finally breaking down and starting on a master chief model... After thenew release of Halo3 all i could think about on A:M was him XD So, here's the start of him!

Alrite, I'll try that out a little later... right now im trying to make a movie with the Cross Model I'm having a hell of a time trying to make bones for it and it's becoming extremely irritating...

I will do that... I thought it was a little too jumpy, the thing was that i was trying to hide him. you know? but you're right, maybe a more defined pose, better lighting, not jsut focusing on the sword. I think that I'll try that right now, thanks for the compliment too!

Thanks, man! I took the idea from Cloud's Blade from the FF7 Advent children movie. I actually found a sheet that showed the seperate parts, so i couldnt pass up the chance to re-create it.

I realize i should really have done a wireframe model first for referance, and i know just getting to this is pretty sad, but here it is...

I realize I should have done a wireframe render first, so here's the base model in coreography

Alrite, yeah, still a newbie with the whole idea and consept of it... I'll light up the background and re-render in wireframe. Thanks for your patience with all of this... I know its pretty rough at the moment.

Not really any other experience with 3-D programing, really, yeah, 'n sorry bout the pressure XD I was just wondering if you had any suggestions. I've been working with A:M for only about 8 months but this project took me about a week. I'd started on it right when i heard about this Hero contest and I had a huge idea in mind.

I'm half planning on making an antenna on the bike to make it look more like a toy, but this is how the render looks so far. If you have any ideas for me to add on, feel free to comment

Ah... thanks a ton, this should work much better, Thanks for the tip off!